St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-22
Proposals for Reef Flour and
Horses.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. SEPT. 5, 1887.
Sealed proposals, Endorsed Proposals for
Beef, Flour and Horses as the case may be,
and directed to the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, Washington, D. c., will be received
for furnishing for and delivering at the
Ponca Agency, 1. T.. 100000 pounds of
gross beet; at Otoe Agency, I. T., so horses
and 90 brood mares; at the Yankton Agency,
OAK, 160, 900 pounds of flour: aud at the
Cheyenne River Agency, Oak, 10000
pounds of -four
The contract for beef will be for good
merchantable, and all offered under any
contract will be subject to rigid inspection.
The cattle to be furnished ON the hoof must
be steers and cows (no bulls or stags) not
over seven years of age, and must average
from May 1 to Dec. 1 not less than $50
pounds, gross, at each delivery; and from
Dec. 1 to May not less than 700 pounds,
gross: no animal to weigh less than $50
pounds, and no animal shall be receieed that
will net less than As per centum of its gross
weight. The price must be figured gross, but
for all cows delivered under any contract
discount of twenty 600 per centum from the
proposed price will be made.
The flour must be what is known as
Straight. Full Stock of good sound wheat,
grown in the section of country contiguous
to the places of delivery-60 pounds of wheat
to be ground down to 40 pounds of flour
and delivered in extra strong single cotton
sacks to weigh 8 ounces to the yard; con-
tractors will be required to plainly stamp
their names on each sack. Samples of not
less than % pounds must be furnished by
bidders, said samples TO be distinctly marked
with the name of the bidder. and numbered
if more than one sample. is submitted
The horses and brood mares must be of
American stock, from four to seven years old,
sound. well broken. without blemishes and
to weigh not less than $50 pounds.
Government blanks are NOT required for.
bids
Each bid must state specifically the pro-
posed price of each artical offered.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
Each bid must be accompanied by a certi-
fed check or draft upon some United States
Depository, made payable to the undersigned,
for at least 3 per cent. Of the amount of the
proposal, which check or draft will be for
feited to the United States in case any bidder
or bidders receiving an award shall fail to
promptly execute contract with good and
sufficient sureties, otherwise to be returned
to the bidder.
The right is reserved to reject any or all
bids or any part of any bid, if deemed for
I'D. c. ATKINS,
254-274 Commissioner of Indian Affairs
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
~ Ramsey-ss. In Probate Court, special
Term, September ID, 1887.
In the matter of the estate of Amelia J. Con-
molly, deceased.
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son Connolly, administrator of the estate Of
Amelia j. Connolly, deceased, representing
among other things, that he has fully adj
ministered said estate. and praying that a
time and place be fixed for examining and
allowing his account of administration,
and for the assignment of the residue of said
estate to the parties entitled thereto;
1t is ordered, that said account be examined
and petition heard, by the Judge of this Court
on Tuesday, the 11th day of october,
A. D. 1887, at ten o'clock a. M. at the Pro-
bate Office in st. Paul, in said county.
And isfurther ordered, that notice thereof
be given to all persons interested, by publish
ing a copy of this order for three successive
weeks prior to said day of hearing. in the ST.
Paul DAILY GLOBE, q newspaper printed and
published at st. Paul. in said county. BY
the Court. E. S. GORMAN,
LIS Judge of Probate.
Attest: FRAME. RoBERT, Jr., Clerk.
DAVID SANFORD, Jr., Attorney for Petitioner.
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